The largest freshwater lake in the Philippinesis on the spotlight as the Baggerwerken Decloedt en Zoon (BDC), a Belgian firm offering maintenance dredging, port construction and development, and land reclamation had filed a case against the Philippine Government before the Washington, D.C.-based International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes. What’s the reason? President Benigno C. […]

Kabataan Rep. Raymond V. Palatino assailed the Department of Tourism’s “overpriced” website project saying that there are more practical and cost-efficient ways of attracting foreigners in visting the country.

Migrant workers’ watchdog Migrante International urges the Congress to investigate the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) and the Overseas Workers’ Welfare Administration (OWWA) on how they spent their funds and why they have failed in bringing dozens of frozen cadavers of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in the Mid-east and other parts of Asia, home.

Members of Migrante International, an international migrants’ watchdog, was elated by the decision of the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) to preventively suspend the Annasban Manpower and the PERT/CMP Manpower Exponents Co., Inc. from participating in the overseas employment program of the government.

Migrante Middle-East (ME) had expressed alarm over the spate of murders, victimizing overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in the region. Last week, two Filipinas were killed, one by her Egyptian hubby and the other one, allegedly killed by her employers and her cadaver had just been dumped somewhere else, in the wide Middle Eastern desert.